Advanced Placement Courses

La Habra High School offers a wide range of AP and Honors courses in a variety of academic areas, including American Government, Art, Calculus (AB), Computer Science, Economics, English (Language & Literature), Environmental Science, European History, French, Human Geography, Physics, Psychology, Spanish (Language & Literature), and US History.  Most of these AP courses are offered as part of the AP/Honors track of our award-winning Heritage Humanities Magnet Program.

Benefits of Taking AP Exams

Your AP exam grades, if sufficiently high, could earn you college credit, placement, or both at thousands of colleges and universities, enabling you to move into upper-level courses in your field of interest, pursue a double major, or gain time to study or travel abroad.

Taking an AP exam also lets you experience a college-level exam. Your work will be evaluated by college and university professors and AP teachers using college-level standards. If you’re worried about how well you’ll do, remember – you risk nothing by taking the exam.

Finally, taking AP exams allows you to earn an AP Scholar Award. Each September, the College Board recognizes high school students who have demonstrated exemplary college-level achievement on the AP exams. These academic distinctions will strengthen your applications, resumes, etc. For additional information about award criteria, please visit the College Board website. www.collegeboard.com/apstudents

Earning College Credit or Placement

Individual colleges and universities, not the College Board or the AP program, grant course credit and placement. You should obtain a college’s AP policy in writing; you can find this information in the institution’s catalog, its website, or by using the AP credit policy info search at www.collegeboard.com/ap/creditpolicy 

If you are interested in applying to a college or university outside the United States, you can find information about AP recognition policies at  www.collegeboard.com/apintl